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H. F. M. LEMAIRE.

CIGARETTE.

No. 384,858. Patented June 19, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRI FELIX MARIE LEMAIRE, OF PARIS, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES C. DELMONICO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,858, dated June 19, 1888. Application filed January 17, 1888. Serial No. 260,988. (No model.) Patented in France May 15, 1885. No. 168,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRI FELIX MARIE LEMAIRE, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cigarettes (for which Ihave obtained apatent in France, No.168, 937, bearing date May 15, 1885, and granted for fifteen years) comprising a filling of loose tobacco and a surrounding paper wrapper. Heretofore in making such cigarettes the paper has been wrapped around the tobacco and then united at its edges by gum or other substance to hold it. My object is to avoid the necessity of gumming together the edges of the paper, and so to simplify the process of making the cigarette, and to avoid the use of the gum or other material, which detracts from the flavor and good effects of the cigarettes.

According to my invention I wrap the paper wrapper around the tobacco without securing it, and I place upon it anarrow retaining-band, preferably slipped on at one end, and which binds the wrapper around the tobacco. This band remains upon the cigarette in smoking it, it being slipped along the body of the cigarette as the same is consumed. The retaining-band may be of any suitable material. It should be stiff enough and strong enough to slip along the wrapper readily and not to tear or to be seriously affected by saliva. It should also contain no poisonous or deleterious ingredient such as might affect the health or comfort of the user. A suitable stifi paper end view, of a cigarette embodying said invention.

A is the tobacco filling, B the loose paper wrapping, and G the retaining-band.

What I claim is- 1. A cigarette having, in combination, a filling of tobacco, a loose paper wrapper, and a narrow band encircling the wrapper and movable thereon, whereby the band may be slipped 

